Had Riddy brought his kicking boots then the score would have looked far more handsome, but that would have been incredibly harsh on Crusaders who I actually thought might go on to win it when they pulled back to 24-22.

Another performance like the Keighley game - to play badly and still win is a good trait to have, but I wouldn't want it to become a regular habit.

Huge win in the circumstances of Batley and Featherstone losing though.

I was very impressed with Crusaders, much better side than I'd expected, and when they got it back to 24-22 with a straightforward kick to come I thought they had their tails up and would go on to win.

But we found a way to win while not playing well so that's an encouraging sign.

We just could not shake them off until the last few minutes - seemed to me because of the dumb rugby we played at times when we should have been doing the simple stuff to consolidate our position. Way too much dropped ball and penalties.

Still 5/5

Too many missed tackles against a very robust Cru side.Ashall needs to stop whinging like an annoying prat he was embarrassing the amount of times he whinged to the whistle happy clown in the middle.
Could quite easilly have lost but we didn't thankfully.

Ugly win and we need Duffy or acton in the 17 IMO
We need to earn the right to play the fancy stuff and get back to setting a quick pace around a dominant 3 props foundation

Charlie had a couple of shillings on the Crusaders + 40

a wise Clown , I thought the Taffs tried to play open rugby , and did fairly well , as for Leigh ?AJ took his 3 tries very well ,and Ryans try was a blinder , I just love a Brierley special , ive criticised McNally recently for his defence , but he saved 2 certain tries todays , so well done Greg

.Not a great win , but a win all the same , 100% record , stopped a Bonus Point, when we decide to play open flowing rugby , the tries and results will come .

Pity no rendition of Men of Harlech



, but life is good , its great being Leyther at the moment , bring on the Hairnets .

Leigh's line speed was poor Crusaders where much quicker when defending

My worry was more the regularity that they broke the line, though the cover defence was generally up to scratch.

play poor and win ?? sign of a good side !!

yeah we were poor today, yet won 35-22, and 4 missed conversions !
How was it that Crusaders never 'infringed' in the tackle, but we did about 10 times....over to you George !!!!!

Credit to crusaders they were a well organised bunch and stuck in the game right to the death. Liked the look of their number 30. He ruined us on our right hand defence.
Also credit to their fans, noisiest bunch we've had at the LSV for some time and kept singing right to the death.
They'll definitely cause a few upsets this year.
Thought we were ok and did enough to win, but a very ordinary defensive performance.
Looked like some tired legs out there, and with a squad our size and depth I would be looking to rest up some players before we start to burn out or pick up injuries.

Well we scored 7 tries but still played daft RL at times.

Too many missed tackles too many dropped balls and too many players had bad games.

Cru seemed to single out our right wing in the second half and it worked.

I don't usually have a go at refs but today's gave a very short 10 metres for both sides.

Re the mom thread who was our worst player ?

Another poor performance and a win, is a sign of a good team but would still rather us get back to winning by 52 points. A lot of missed conversions that cost us really, although I'm still a bit worried about our defence. Crusaders were good though, hope they'll avoid relegation and based on todays performance they will. They've got a good set of fans, brought a lot and kept singing throughout. I'm looking forward to going to Wrexham now, especially if we're still at the top of the league.

We just gave too man easy 10 yards to them and then allowed them space out wide,I have seen this happen loads over the years where we just don't seem to pressurise so called weaker teams when they have the ball.Nothing to worry about as we won whilst not playing our best and hopefully we can step up a couple of gears against the Fax and Fevs when we play them.

Turning out to be a great league though with no easy games amd lots of teams able to beat each other.

Great interview on Centurions TV with Paul Rowley givin a insight into one thing we speccys did,nt know about certain players yesterday and his thoughts on why the team did,nt perform up to scratch

Following the lead of opposition coaches last season; the right flank needs to buck up defensively or be replaced.

AJ was on our right wing yesterday , I admit he dropped a couple of high balls , but he took his 3 tries well , and normally is a decent defender , maybe just a blip , we all have them .

There were two players who missed tackles on that wing and neither was AJ.

Frank , im not knocking AJ , I thought he has made a very good start to the season , is looking very sharp and will keep his place , no doubt , if he carries on this way .

I didn't mention right wing, I commented about the right flank which obviously means more than one player.

AJ should be in the team and could play centre too (but not at the same time as wing)

could this article explain some things? www.leighreporter.co.uk/sport/le ... -1-6518355

could this article explain some things? www.leighreporter.co.uk/sport/le ... -1-6518355

Quote ="Mediateam"could this article explain some things? www.leighreporter.co.uk/sport/le ... -1-6518355'" Right that is impressive then. To be able to deny the bonus point to a team as good as Crusaders were whilst having this flu that's going round. Hopefully everyone will be back fit for next week, over the 2 games (league and Challenge Cup) I want to see us put 100 points on Rochdale, get back to big wins ready for Halifax away.

Quote ="Mediateam"could this article explain some things? www.leighreporter.co.uk/sport/le ... -1-6518355'" Right that is impressive then. To be able to deny the bonus point to a team as good as Crusaders were whilst having this flu that's going round. Hopefully everyone will be back fit for next week, over the 2 games (league and Challenge Cup) I want to see us put 100 points on Rochdale, get back to big wins ready for Halifax away.

By knocking over a late drop goal to gain a 13 point victory, can it be assumed that the Leigh players see Crusaders as a threat in the league this season? Or would they attempt that against everyone? Bearing in mind that Crusaders are currently in the relegation zone, it looks like Swinton and Batley gained the most out of that.

Absolutely no idea. But if you have a goal of finishing 1st or 2nd at the end of the season, you deny anyone a point if you can at this stage of the season

I would hope and expect us to do that against any opposition. We don't want to give away points to anybody if we can possibly avoid it, especially at home. We need to make the LSV a fortress this season.

Somebody on the TotalRL forum described it as 'spiteful'. I would call it ruthless and that is a very good trait to have in a RL team IMO.